1923 in sports

[American football]

• Canton Bulldogs

• Illinois Fighting Illini – college football national championship

  [Association football]

• Formation of the Bulgarian Football Union

• The Football League – Liverpool 60 points, Sunderland 54, Huddersfield Town 53, Newcastle United 48, Everton 47, Aston Villa 46
• FA Cup final – Bolton Wanderers 2–0 West Ham United at Empire Stadium, Wembley, London. The match, known as the "White Horse Final", is the inaugural Wembley final.
• The Third Division North expands from 20 to 22 clubs, bringing the total number of Football League clubs to 88. With Stalybridge Celtic expelled, the new clubs are Doncaster Rovers, New Brighton and AFC Bournemouth.

• National Championship – Hamburger SV 3–0 Union Oberschöneweide at Berlin

• Rapid București is founded under the name "Cultural and Sporting Association CFR" by a group of workers at the Grivita workshops.

• Celta de Vigo is founded after the merger of Real Vigo Sporting and Real Club Fortuna de Vigo.
• Club Deportivo Villarreal, official founded on March 10, as predecessor for Villarreal CF.

• Formation of the Turkish Football Federation
• Genclerbirligi of Ankara officially founded on March 14.

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• third Women's Olympiad in Monte Carlo

• First British Track & Field championships for women, London

• First American Track & Field championships for women, New Jersey

  [Australian rules football]

• 13 October – Essendon wins the 27th VFL Premiership, defeating Fitzroy 8.15 to 6.10 at Melbourne Cricket Ground in the 1923 VFL Grand Final.

• 29 September – Norwood 9.12 defeats North Adelaide 6.4 to win its second successive SAFL premiership
• Magarey Medal won by Horrie Riley

• 6 October – East Perth win its fifth consecutive premiership, beating East Fremantle 9.9 to 7.4
• Sandover Medal won by "Digger" Thomas

  [Bandy]

• Championship final – Västerås SK 2-1 IF Linnéa

  [Baseball]

• 10–15 October — New York Yankees defeats New York Giants to win the 1923 World Series by 4 games to 2

• 18 April — opening of the original Yankee Stadium in the Bronx

• The Eastern Colored League plays its first season with six teams: Hilldale Daisies, Brooklyn Royal Giants, Cuban Stars, New York Lincoln Giants, Atlantic City Bacharach Giants, and Baltimore Black Sox. Hilldale wins the first pennant. Afterward the league votes for expansion to eight teams, accepting the Harrisburg Giants and the Washington Potomacs.
• The Negro National League completes its fourth season with the Kansas City Monarchs winning their first pennant after three years of domination by Rube Foster's Chicago American Giants. The other teams in the league are Indianapolis ABC's, Detroit Stars, St. Louis Stars, Cuban Stars, Toledo Tigers, and Milwaukee Bears. The Tigers and Bears disband during the season and three teams play under "associate" status for the remainder of the season: Cleveland Tate Stars, Birmingham Black Barons, and Memphis Red Sox.
• Oscar "Heavy" Johnson wins the NNL triple crown, leading in batting average, home runs, and RBI, while Wilbur "Bullet" Rogan leads in wins and strikeouts. Raleigh "Biz" Mackey is the batting leader in the ECL with Jesse "Nip" Winters leading in most pitching categories.
• There is no World Series between the two champions this year, owing to enmity between Rube Foster and the ECL president Ed Bolden

  [Boxing]

• 18 June — Jimmy Wilde's long reign as World Flyweight Champion ends when he is knocked out by Filipino Pancho Villa in the 7th round in New York City
• 31 August — Harry Greb, arguably the greatest-ever middleweight, takes the world title when he defeats Johnny Wilson over 15 rounds in New York City
• 14 September — Jack Dempsey knocks out Luis Firpo in the second round of a sensational fight at the Polo Grounds in New York City to retain his World Heavyweight Championship title.

• World Heavyweight Championship – Jack Dempsey
• World Light Heavyweight Championship – Battling Siki → Mike McTigue
• World Middleweight Championship – Johnny Wilson → Harry Greb
• World Welterweight Championship – Mickey Walker
• World Lightweight Championship – Benny Leonard
• World Featherweight Championship – Johnny Kilbane → Eugene Criqui → Johnny Dundee
• World Bantamweight Championship – Joe Lynch
• World Flyweight Championship – Jimmy Wilde → Pancho Villa

  [Canadian football]

• 11th Grey Cup in the Canadian Football League – Queen's University 54–0 Regina Roughriders

  [Cricket]

• In a cool, damp English summer, a West Indian team is on tour, winning six and losing seven first-class matches.

• County Championship – Yorkshire
• Minor Counties Championship – Buckinghamshire
• Most runs – Patsy Hendren 2934 @ 77.21
• Most wickets – Maurice Tate 219 @ 13.97
• Wisden Cricketers of the Year – Arthur Gilligan, Roy Kilner, George Macaulay, Cec Parkin, Maurice Tate

• Sheffield Shield – New South Wales
• Most runs – Percy Chapman 782 @ 65.16
• Most wickets – Arthur Mailey 55 @ 21.58

• Bombay Quadrangular – Parsees

• Plunket Shield – Canterbury

• Currie Cup – not contested

• Inter-Colonial Tournament – not contested

  [Cycling]

• Henri Pélissier wins the 17th Tour de France

• Costante Girardengo of Maino wins the eleventh Giro d'Italia

  [Figure skating]

• World Men's Champion – Fritz Kachler
• World Women's Champion – Herma Szabo
• World Pairs Champions – Ludowika Jakobsson-Eilers and Walter Jakobsson

  [Golf]

• British Open – Arthur Havers
• US Open – Bobby Jones
• USPGA Championship – Gene Sarazen

• British Amateur – Roger Wethered
• US Amateur – Max Marston

  [Horse racing]

• Grand National – Sergeant Murphy
• 1,000 Guineas Stakes – Tranquil
• 2,000 Guineas Stakes – Ellangowan
• The Derby – Papyrus
• The Oaks – Brownhylda
• St. Leger Stakes – Tranquil

• Melbourne Cup – Bitalli

• Queen's Plate – Flowerful

• Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe – Parth

• Irish Grand National – Be Careful
• Irish Derby Stakes – Waygood

• Kentucky Derby – Zev
• Preakness Stakes – Vigil
• Belmont Stakes – Zev

  [Ice hockey]

• 29–31 March — Ottawa Senators wins the Stanley Cup for the fifth time, defeating the Edmonton Eskimos by 2 games to 0 in the 1923 Stanley Cup Finals

• Klass I, a professional ice hockey league in Sweden, as predecessor for Swedish Hockey League, first officially game held on January 23.

  [Motorsport]

[Multi-sport event]s

• The 6th Far Eastern Championship Games is held at Osaka, Japan.

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• 24 March — Oxford wins the 75th Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race

  [Rugby league]

• Championship – Hull Kingston Rovers
• Challenge Cup final – Leeds 28–3 Hull F.C. at Belle Vue, Wakefield
• Lancashire League Championship – Wigan
• Yorkshire League Championship – Hull
• Lancashire County Cup – Wigan 20–2 Leigh
• Yorkshire County Cup – York 5–0 Batley

• NSW Premiership – Eastern Suburbs 15–12 South Sydney

  [Rugby union]

• 36th Five Nations Championship series is won by England who complete the Grand Slam.

  [Speed skating]

• Men's All-round Champion – Clas Thunberg

  [Tennis]

• Australian Men's Singles Championship – Pat O'Hara Wood defeats Bert St. John 6–1 6–1 6–3
• Australian Women's Singles Championship – Margaret Molesworth defeats Esna Boyd Robertson 6–1 7–5

• Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship – Bill Johnston defeats Francis Hunter 6–0 6–3 6–1
• Wimbledon Women's Singles Championship – Suzanne Lenglen defeats Kitty McKane Godfree 6–2 6–2

• French Men's Singles Championship – François Blanchy defeats Max Decugis 1–6 6–2 6–0 6–2
• French Women's Singles Championship – Suzanne Lenglen defeats Germaine Golding 6–1 6–4

• American Men's Singles Championship – Bill Tilden defeats Bill Johnston 6–4 6–1 6–4
• American Women's Singles Championship – Helen Wills Moody defeats Molla Bjurstedt Mallory 6–2 6–1

• 1923 International Lawn Tennis Challenge – 4–1 at West Side Tennis Club New York City, United States